Polish unemployment at 5.1% in September: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.1 percent in September, from 5.2 percent in August, according to revised data from the country's statistics office.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

geralt/pixabay.com/Pixabay License

The reading reported by the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency on Tuesday was higher than an earlier estimate of 4.8 percent by the country's labour ministry.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in September 2022 amounted to 5.1% and was lower than in August 2022 (5.2%).

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin 09/2022: https://t.co/XrgK1HGX2E#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/WdVALuSAUg

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) October 25, 2022

Stopa bezrobocia we wrześniu spadła. Znamy nowe dane GUS https://t.co/hKBCQtcdL0

— Gospodarka - Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) October 25, 2022

There were around 801,700 people without jobs across the nation at the end of September, compared with 806,900 a month earlier, according to Statistics Poland.

The state-run statistics office has revised upward its estimates of Poland's monthly jobless figures since December last year, state news agency PAP reported.

#StatisticsPoland revised the monthly #RegisteredUnemployment rate from Dec. 2020 to Aug. 2022. The details of the revision can be found in the information and the table which provides data before and after the revision.https://t.co/jkvo5CEHfq#statistics #LabourMarket pic.twitter.com/Hn5sNSxp9z

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) October 25, 2022

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.6 percent in August, unchanged from July and the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

(gs)

Source: PAP